A BOAT BENEATH A SUNNY SKY

What is the following stanza setting up for the reader?

A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol

Stanza 1:

A boat, beneath a sunny sky

Lingering onward dreamily

In an evening of July--

• The setting

• The conflict

• The rising action

• The resolution

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Whenever we read we always look for who and what, poetry is no different. In A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky, by Lewis Carrol, Stanza 2 who are our whos and what do they want? (choose 2)

Children three that nestle near,

Eager eye and willing ear

Please a smile tale to hear

• Children

• Adults

• Sleep

• To be told a story

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

Where is there a shift in tone in A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol?

• Long has paled that sunny sky:

• Echoes fade and memories die:

• Autumn frosts have slain July

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol, What is the author's tone towards Alice in Stanza 4?

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,

Alice moving under skies

Never seen by waking eyes.

• haunted

• moving

• somber

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

What is the Allusion that can be found in Stanza 6 of A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky by Lewis Carrol?

In a Wonderland they lie,

Dreaming as the days go by,

Dreaming as the summers die.

• Alice in Wonderland

• Dreaming Days

• Summer's Dying

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5